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Program
00:00 - McTiernan pleads guilty
01:32 - Smithsonian plus Showtime = Angry filmmakers & TV producers
02:37 - Micheal Eisner involved with two online video startups
03:47 - The Oscars are back to February, at least for now

• The picture isn't even done yet, but FX has reportedly snatched broadcast rights to Superman Returns. For 12% of the film's theatrical gross (to be capped at about $25 million), the Fox ancillary will have first rights to air the superflick, starting in 2009.
• A month after Brad Grey brought the contracts over the Steven Spielberg's Malibu home, the Paramount-Dreamworks deal is far from closed. Right now, the two companies are working on employee integration, and to that end, department heads at both studios have been asked to present lists of their employees, which are now being compared side-by-side to determine whether the current Paramount employee, or the current Dreamworks staffer is more deserving of the final position. Though the trade claims "there is no mandate to cut a certain number of staffers" ... come on, right?
• Meanwhile, deposed Disney CEO Michael Eisner has hopped over to sometime Dreamworks suitor NBC/Universal. No, he's not running the show – he's just running a talk show. CNBC will air a bimonthly interview set to be called ... wait for it ... Conversations With Michael Eisner. If one was to assume this was Eisner's way of making sure his rolodex stays up to date, one wouldn't necessarily be wrong. As he tells Variety: "It will keep me on top of my game in the areas outside the show, because I will be talking to people in industries I am interested in." Bets on how long this venture will last before Eisner talks his way into a new exec role can be sent to karina@cinematical.com.

• What a nightmare The Island is turning out to be: the producers of 70s b-movie Parts: The Clonus Horror are suing Dreamworks on allegations that Michael Bay's picture is unlawfully sourced from their own. We first reported the similarites between the two films two weeks ago.
• A judge has ruled that Michael Eisner and other Disney executives are not responsible for contributing to the $140 million severance package awarded former president Michael Ovitz. The ruling "concludes that Ovitz, Eisner and Disney directors all acted in good faith in his hiring and firing, and that the plaintiffs failed by every measure to show otherwise."
• Liev Schrieber and Julia Stiles are in talks to star in John Moore's remake of The Omen. And, because there's nothing like cutesy horror film marketing, Fox plans to release the film on June 6, 2006 - get it? 666?
• Mark Cuban's HDNet Films has greenlit Diggers, starring Paul Rudd, Lauren Ambrose, and Sarah Paulson. The script is by The State's Ken Marino, who will also co-star. Cuban and friends play to distribute the film in theaters, on cable and on DVD simultaneously.